Inspector General

Burgeoning whistleblower scandal over ‘urgent’ national security threat in White House

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Last Friday, Politico reported House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff alleged that the nation’s top intelligence official is illegally withholding a whistleblower complaint, possibly to protect President Donald Trump or senior White House officials. Schiff accuses top intel official of illegally withholding ‘urgent’ whistleblower complaint: Schiff issued a subpoena for the complaint, accusing acting Director of … Read more

A morally bankrupt and depraved child separation policy inflicting psychological harm on children

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On Wednesday, a new report (.pdf) by Joanne M. Chiedi, Acting Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services, shed more light into how the Trump administration’s controversial “zero tolerance policy” last year affected thousands of children who were separated from their families at the Mexico border and placed in the custody of the Office … Read more

The GOP plot to discredit Robert Mueller hits a snag

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify publicly before Congress on July 17. Republicans in Congress want to distract the public by focusing their attacks on “investigating the investigators” who investigated the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia-linked operatives — not the Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. (As long as it inures to their … Read more

Dear Nancy Pelosi: Duty Calls

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Senator Elizabeth Warren early on expressed the moral clarity that is needed at this hour of constitutional crisis: ‘there’s no political-convenience exception to the US constitution’ when it comes to impeaching Trump. “[T]he tool that we are given for that accountability is the impeachment process. This is not about politics, this is about principle. This … Read more